Places jesadair Wants to Go

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.